Monday, 10 May 2010

Tanks? You're welcome.

.Just to show my absence from blogging was not all sitting around with my feet up. I have put in four water tanks. The one above, 2000 litres, sits snugly behind the Manchurian Pears. It is also linked to a tall narrow tank up the side of the house by a pipe under the house. The small tank doesn't hold much on its own but the two tanks equilibrate and it means I can harvest a good downpipe that is around there.

This one, 1000 litres, is in the front garden.

There is a fourth in the vegetable garden.

We are slowly moving to make things a little more sustainable.

Tomorrow I will show you how to build a vegetable garden out of ink-jet cartridges....

7 comments:

That is a great idea Lee, I will have to get one myself as rain water is so good for the plants.Your plants looks very green and healthy, are those plumbago blossoms I can see there? What wonderful, forgiving plants they are, I have about five, two shades of blue and white.Manchurian pears, they look lovely, I must look them up on Google. xoxo ♡

Dianne: Plumbago, yes. The Manchurian Pears (JCN calls them Patagonian Figs for some obscure reason) shade the back westerly wall in summer. I will be cutting the middle out of them to keep them to size sometime this winter.